détails d'emploi
Our client seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead high-profile, complex, and high-risk AI and automation solutions projects. The successful candidate will ensure that project deliverables align with business requirements while staying on track with scope, budget, and timeline. This role involves financial management at a program level, collaboration with third-party vendors, and navigating large-scale organizational environments.
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Advantages
- Hybrid work model
- Opportunity to lead AI and automation initiatives in a large organization
- Engage with cross-functional teams, third-party vendors, and senior stakeholders
- Work within a structured OPS I&IT project management framework
- Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities
Responsibilities
- Provides project management on large-scale, complex, high-profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet client's business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
- Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
- Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- Sources, selects, and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarifies roles and responsibilities and sets task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
- Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members, such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
- Provides project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
- Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects, concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
- Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
- 8+ years’ experience in delivering AI and automation solutions.
- 5+ years’ experience managing financials at a program level, including operating and capital expenses.
- 3+ years’ experience working with third party vendors in large scale organizations.
General Skills:
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
- Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.
- Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management Institutes, Project Management Body of Knowledge, and Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources.
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness.
- Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develop responses to successfully address conflict.
- Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provide updates as required, identify potential conflicts between project and functional areas.
Summary
This is a unique opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to lead AI and automation-driven projects in a high-impact public sector environment. The role demands strong leadership in project delivery, financial oversight, and vendor management. If you are experienced in enterprise-level AI implementations, adept at handling large budgets and cross-functional teams, and thrive in fast-paced, high-stakes environments, we encourage you to apply.
Also, remember that updating your profile on Randstad.ca helps us find you faster when we have roles that match your skills! So even if this role isn’t for you, please update your profile so we can find you!
We look forward to supporting you in your job search! Good luck!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Our client seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead high-profile, complex, and high-risk AI and automation solutions projects. The successful candidate will ensure that project deliverables align with business requirements while staying on track with scope, budget, and timeline. This role involves financial management at a program level, collaboration with third-party vendors, and navigating large-scale organizational environments.
Advantages
- Hybrid work model
- Opportunity to lead AI and automation initiatives in a large organization
- Engage with cross-functional teams, third-party vendors, and senior stakeholders
- Work within a structured OPS I&IT project management framework
- Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities
Responsibilities
- Provides project management on large-scale, complex, high-profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet client's business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
- Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
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- Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- Sources, selects, and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarifies roles and responsibilities and sets task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
- Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members, such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
- Provides project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
- Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects, concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
- Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
- 8+ years’ experience in delivering AI and automation solutions.
- 5+ years’ experience managing financials at a program level, including operating and capital expenses.
- 3+ years’ experience working with third party vendors in large scale organizations.
General Skills:
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
- Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.
- Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management Institutes, Project Management Body of Knowledge, and Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources.
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness.
- Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develop responses to successfully address conflict.
- Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provide updates as required, identify potential conflicts between project and functional areas.
Summary
This is a unique opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to lead AI and automation-driven projects in a high-impact public sector environment. The role demands strong leadership in project delivery, financial oversight, and vendor management. If you are experienced in enterprise-level AI implementations, adept at handling large budgets and cross-functional teams, and thrive in fast-paced, high-stakes environments, we encourage you to apply.
Also, remember that updating your profile on Randstad.ca helps us find you faster when we have roles that match your skills! So even if this role isn’t for you, please update your profile so we can find you!
We look forward to supporting you in your job search! Good luck!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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